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December 29th, 2010 letter to the Editor published in the Winnipeg Free Press
In response to Dave Taylor's December 18th article on the decommissioning of the Underground Research Laboratory (URL) in Manitoba, Dennis LeNeveu assures us of the safety of nuclear waste in an underground granite rock repository. He refers to the "solid rock" deep in the Canadian Shield.
If the rock were as "solid" as he says, why would there be a need to continue experiments
in the URL as described elsewhere in your paper by Bruce Owen, who reported that
AECL's Paul Thompson said the experiments involve "a huge man-
That does not sound like solid rock to me and is certainly no place for the emplacement of substances that are as toxic and radioactive, some for hundreds of thousands of years. It sounds like a nightmare scenario for many future generations.
Walter Robbins
Kingston, Ontario
